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“In my work, I like to explore the tensions
—and how chaos can break up stagnant forms into something dynamic, and form can derive beauty from the inchoate. I especially prefer to work with translucent and reflective surfaces where the shimmer of gold, silver, copper,
or iridescent paints capture light, sometimes alongside glass or beads. My pieces may be layered, worked and reworked, including ma- terials that might otherwise be perceived as rubbish—glass crystals from broken cars and buildings, gypsum, melted polystyrene and so on. More recently, material used include metal foil, geometrical shapes cut from older col- lages, clay in which patterns can be imprinted, and crack paint. The layers of my works often represent memories encoded in newer and older layers, adding more and more complex- ity to each surface.”
between chaos and form
lynDa stevens